Educational Science

Wi-Fi Donkeys Carry Internet Access on Park Trails

It may be fun to check out life in the first century, but not if it means you can't Tweet about it. Not to worry: An Israeli park meant to recreate life in Biblical times is now offering Wi-Fi hotspots, carried by donkeys, for tourists who want to Tweet, Facebook,...

Clickable Internet Map Shows 350,000 Websites

In the map of a place, addresses that are physically close to each other in life get placed physically near each other in the map. But in a map of the internet, how would you define closeness? Russian programmer Ruslan Enikeev decided to use the same measure that Google uses...

Time Warner Cable experienced a massive Internet outage across most of its service markets on Monday morning, the company has confirmed. Time Warner Internet subscribers from New York and Los Angeles to Dallas and Kansas City, Mo., were unable to connect to the Internet for less than a minute this...

Future of Long-Distance Love Is Cool But Creepy

It's 2025 and your boyfriend has been temporarily posted to Tokyo, while you're still stuck in the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis. How will you keep in touch? Well, maybe hug shirts and larger-than-life videoconferencing will help you out. As communication technology has improved over time, it's helped long-distance couples stay in...

Insurgents Destroyed US Helicopters Found in Online Photos

When new U.S. Army attack helicopters landed at an Iraqi base in 2007, soldiers uploaded smartphone photos of the helicopters to the Internet. The soldiers didn’t realize that those pictures contained GPS geotags, which according to an Army officer allowed insurgents to pinpoint and destroy four Apache helicopters in a...

Internet Usage Pattern Can Indicate Depression

Depressed internet users browse the web more randomly, switching between several applications, new research on university students suggests. The researchers analyzed Internet usage among college students and found that students who show signs of depression tend to browse differently than others. They identified nine fine-grained patterns of Internet usage that...

Communicating on the Web (Infographic)

Here's how the 2 billion people on the Internet are communicating. (Image credit: Ross Toro, ) ...

What's Wrong With Online Voting?

Internet voting for American citizens is exceedingly dangerous. That's the opinion of David Jefferson, a computer scientist and chairman of Verified Voting, an election watchdog group based in Carlsbad, Calif. I consider voting security to be a national-security issue, said Jefferson. So it has to be treated with that level...

10 Sneaky Ways Teens Hide Online Activity

A recent survey commissioned by software security firm McAfee found that 71 percent of teenagers admit to hiding online activities from their parents. In many cases, parents were unaware of what their kids were up to online, or that kids could get into real-life trouble on the internet at all....

Parents In the Dark About Teens' Online Activities, Survey Finds

More than 70 percent of teens hide some of their online behavior from their parents, according to a new study that finds plenty of young people are using the Internet in ways that might surprise mom and dad. For example, while only 12 percent of parents said they thought their...